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It’s back to the drawing board for a residential real estate developer in Senneville, Que. Residents in the small, rustic municipality on the western tip of the Island of Montreal recently stopped a proposed housing project from being approved. More than 160 signatures were registered to oppose a developer who planned to build condominiums off…

The Nova Scotia government has issued two requests for supplier qualifications for the estimated $2-billion redevelopment of Atlantic Canada’s largest hospital complex. The province says it has begun the search for the team that will design, construct, finance and maintain new construction at Halifax’s QEII Health Sciences Centre, which is to be done through a…

A man in his 20s is dead after an industrial accident in Toronto’s east end on Monday. A Toronto Paramedics spokesperson told Global News they responded to a call at a construction site in the area of Kennedy Road and Passmore Avenue at around 2:50 p.m. Toronto police said the man died at the scene. The…

Halton and Peel region paramedics say two people are suffering serious injuries after a minivan crashed into a truck on Highway 401 in Milton. Emergency crews responded to the call at around 1:30 a.m. on Highway 401 going westbound of Trafalgar Road, where a Honda minivan drove into the back of a large truck as…

Fri, Dec 14: A small business owner is feeling the pinch of unwanted construction. As Global’s Billy Shield’s explains, the municipality of Ormstown needed to carry out infrastructure work on Highway 201 and insists citizens were warned during public consultations. Source link

Fri, Dec 14: Base Camp has been a fixture on Cartier Avenue in Pointe-Claire for years, but come February, the store’s owners will be closing up shop. As Global’s Tim Sargeant explains, several factors led up to the closure but the owners say lengthy construction on Cartier Avenue was the nail in the coffin. Source…

A total of 10 construction projects in Montreal that were slated to finish by the end of the year have been delayed until 2019. The City of Montreal made the announcement on Friday afternoon, saying the early bout of winter weather during the fall is to blame. READ MORE: Montreal extends construction plan to a decade…

Canada Goose has cancelled the opening of its flagship China store, which was scheduled for Saturday, citing construction delays. The cancellation comes as the luxury clothing company faces the ire of Chinese consumers, many of whom are upset over the Canadian arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. READ MORE: Canada Goose’s stock plummets amidst…

Troy Chapman inspects his mini-excavator, looking for damage. The machine was recently recovered after it was stolen from a Kelowna construction site in broad daylight a few weeks ago. “They drove it up to this gravel pile, got it up on top, backed up a pick-up or whatever they get it into and loaded it…

The City of Regina has deemed construction season a success as crews wrap up work in the city. Two major projects on which crews worked this year were the Ring Road’s on and off ramps over Victoria Avenue and the installation of a crossing over Pilot Butte Creek that involved the realignment of Eastgate Drive. Both…